It is not unusual for Americans to profess irritation at campaigns that they say start too soon.
And it was his sense of history, not his morality, that made him savage the German vice chancellor who dared to profess ignorance at a party about why the United States had entered the First World War.
Brown recluses are not very reclusive, which just doesn't seem right, as if Cedric the Entertainer were to profess shock at the notion that he should entertain anyone.
The title of the whole series in Norwegian – Min Kamp ("My Struggle"), deliberately echoing Hitler's autobiography – is indicative of the self-absorption that allowed Knausgaard to write it in the first place and to profess surprise at the amount of hurt it caused.
People must be free to profess their faith at the heart of their own culture not merely at its margins.
On his voyage homeward through the Mediterranean he was captured by Christian pirates and, because he revealed extraordinary intelligence, was presented as a gift to Pope Leo X. Impressed with his slave's learning, the pontiff freed him after a year and, having persuaded him to profess Christianity, stood sponsor at his baptism in 1520.
I'm doing it and I'll keep doing it until someone stops me forcibly.' Back then, in the white heat of the post-punk moment, it was de rigueur to profess one's passionate intensity at every available opportunity, and Costello, in the course of two albums, 1977's My Aim Is True, and 1978's This Year's Model, had staked his place as the King of Caustic.
With no need to repent, to profess a creed, we are at a revival, souls washed through with song: we are revived.
Everyone shall be guaranteed the freedom of conscience, the freedom of religion, including the right to profess individually or together with other any religion or to profess no religion at all, to freely choose, possess and disseminate religious and other views and act according to them.
And while most Americans profess at least theoretical support for the law, their behavior tells another story.
